CHPW staff toured The Anacortes Family Center (AFC) Emergency Shelter last week, where about 80% of the women, children, and families in crisis they serve leave the program with a safe, stable home, and a job to support their family.
According to AFC, they have the highest success rate in the state, and takes a holistic and individualized approach with each family they serve.
In June 2023, CHPW awarded AFC $5,000 from our Capacity Building Fund for a pilot project to mutually address the needs of CHPW’s unsheltered and unstably housed members. AFC is using these funds to increase access to preventive and responsive health care resources and services and improve overall physical health and social determinants of health.
CHPW’s goal to provide whole-person care includes the recognition that health care is heavily impacted by the social drivers (determinants) of health (SDOH) in which we live, and our individual social needs.
Central to addressing social drivers of health is investing in community partnerships with organizations like The Anacortes Family Center that were created to address those social needs.
Thank you, AFC, for inviting us for a visit and for your continued partnership!
Learn more about AFC at https://www.anacortesfamily.org/.
CHPW and AFC staff pictured left to right: Marci Bloomquist (CHPW Regional Manager), Ana Lopez (CHPW Community Health Worker), Dustin Johnson (Executive Director of AFC), Adrian Lane (CHPW Community Health Worker), Krystal Romero (CHPW Community Health Worker), and Cindy Heredia (CHPW Account Manager)
